Section: The Times of India (India)
Mike Pompeo dives into NATO diplomacy as allies confront Russia
Pompeo’s aim is to ensure that NATO maintains a unified position of “no business as usual” with Russia until it implements an agreement to end violence in eastern Ukraine and halts destabilising actions for which it is blamed elsewhere, according to a senior US official. …read more Source: The Times of...
Nerve agent attack: Oz to expel two Russian envoys
Australia has already imposed a series of sanctions against Russia following the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 and the Russian annexing of parts of Ukraine in 2014. …read more Source: The Times of...
Putin’s Russia: From basket case to resurgent superpower
Since Putin was last elected in 2012, Russians have invaded Ukraine, annexed Crimea, blanket-bombed Syria and been accused of meddling in the U.S. presidential election. Putin has also claimed to have a scary new nuclear arsenal. …read more Source: The Times of...
Putin murder plot suspect wounded, wife killed in Ukraine
Amina Okuyeva died and her husband Adam Osmayev was injured when their car was hit by a hail of bullets while crossing a railroad track near Kiev. Osmayev was accused of plotting to kill Putin just weeks before the Russian leader’s election to a third term in 2012. …read more Source: The Times of...
Thousands evacuate after blasts in Ukraine arms depot
Ukrainian authorities evacuated more than 30,000 people Wednesday from the central Vinnytsia region after a huge arms depot caught fire and set off explosions in what prosecutors said was a possible act of “sabotage”. …read more Source: The Times of...
NKorea can make missile engines without imports: US
The assessment disputes a new study by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies that said that the engines for a nuclear missile North Korea is developing to hit the United States likely were made in factories in Ukraine or Russia and probably obtained via black market networks. …read more Source: The Times of...
FBI agents searched ex-Trump campaign chair’s home
President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been a subject of a longstanding FBI investigation into his dealings in Ukraine and work for the country’s former president, Viktor Yanukovych. …read more Source: The Times of...
Germany warns US over Russia sanctions
Germany warned on Friday that it would not accept any new US sanctions against Russia that targeted European companies at the same time. Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel underlined the importance of applying economic pressure on Russia over its involvement in the Ukrainian conflict. …read more Source: The Times of...
Kremlin warns against ‘harmful’ new US sanctions on Russia
US Senate vote Tuesday on a bill that targets Russia — for its alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election and its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. Initially, US President Donald Trump resisted the legislation, but he seems to be left with little option but to sign off on the move. …read more Source: The Times of...
Why Ukrainian forces gave up Crimea without a fight
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